Ontological questions: What is my world and what is it made of? What is consciousness? What is it made of? First and foremost, I am an atheist, which simply means that I deny that a god or gods exist. Secondly, I am a metaphysical naturalist. I believe that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences—those required to understand our physical environment ...
Updated December 21, 2012 at 04:19 PM by realitybites
Grey Gardens, Albert and David Maysles, 1976 Albert and David Maysles, pioneers in the cinéma vérité movement of documentary filmmaking, chose for their subjects of this film a mother and daughter with celebrity connections. Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edie (or, as they are called by the brothers, Big Edie and Little Edie), are aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. In the early ...
Updated August 16, 2012 at 03:54 AM by realitybites
These are the television shows I watch--always on my PC. Looking forward to the new seasons this fall. Girls Veep Mad Men The Good Wife ...
Updated August 14, 2012 at 09:56 PM by realitybites
I really went on a tirade in my previous blog entry--slamming Sight & Sound's Fifty Greatest Films of all time 2012 list. But should I really be stirring up a storm if I have not actually seen all the movies in their list? Perhaps I shouldn't. Of course, no one has seen all movies made. And so anyone who has submitted a top ten list is guilty of doing this. For how can one know if a film is worthy or not of being in a top ten list, if one hasn't actually seen the film? ...
Updated August 24, 2012 at 03:11 AM by realitybites
its been quite hot out here in the desert for this last month, many days over 100 degrees Fahrenheit quite a contrast from the often cold of Georgia(the country) the end result is that I spend much time inside where there is air conditioning but I am looking forward to making it down to L.A. from the 20th to the 24th though & ...
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